Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Produced or operating by reverberation; deflected or diverted, as flame or heat, onto material being treated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reverberating or reverberatory furnace; a reverberator in which the heat and flame is reflected from a curved roof downward upon the material to be heated on the furnace bottom.
- Characterized by or liable to reverberation; tending to reverberate.
- Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberating: as, a reverberatory furnace or kiln. See
reverberation , 4, and furnace, and cut underpuddling-furnace .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative.
- adjective See the Note under
Furnace . - noun A reverberatory furnace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or employing
reverberation ordeflection - noun A
reverberatory furnace .
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Examples
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Two of the foremen, named Cranege, suggested to Mr. Reynolds that this might be performed in what is called a reverberatory furnace, *
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Two of the foremen, named Cranege, suggested to Mr. Reynolds that this might be performed in what is called a reverberatory furnace, [7] in which the iron should not mix with the coal, but be heated solely by the flame.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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This diverse, multifaceted, adrenaline-charged method of policymaking, found only in America, can resemble a reverberatory furnace.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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Puddling is the process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities.
Cort, Henry 2009
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No reverberatory effect of the great war has caused American public opinion more solicitude than the failure of the “melting-pot.”
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No reverberatory effect of the great war has caused American public opinion more solicitude than the failure of the “melting-pot.”
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Ramón y Cajal's analyses of neural circuitry neurons that were interconnected in closed pathways and could thereby sustain reverberatory activity, thus providing a dynamic mechanism for information storage.
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The conception of a transient, unstable reverberatory trace is therefore useful.
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But for short-term memory, Hebb invoked a reverberatory circuit:
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He stopped and listened — over the cold country whistles were blowing and the chimes of the Garden City churches broke suddenly into reverberatory sound.
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